To fellow natives in Commonwealth countries who assume that the privileges and immunities of former colonists were abolished with the advent of black rule, consider the (murderous) misdeeds of Thomas Cholmondeley.
This is the opening line of an article I wrote in May 2006 entitled White Farmer shoots another Maasai warrior like game. And I took this cynical tone because – as I lamented in that article:
Almost a year to the day after murder charges against him for killing a Maasai ranger were summarily dismissed (due to “insufficient evidence”), Cholmondeley, 45, son of the 5th Baron Delamere, was arrested earlier this week for shooting dead yet another one.
Well, even though delayed, it now seems that justice in this second case will not be denied. Because, after perhaps the longest preliminary hearing in the history of English jurisprudence – having convened last September, a judge ruled this week that there is in fact sufficient evidence for Cholmondeley to be tried for murder. Moreover, if convicted, he will be hanged – despite a long-standing government pledge to abolish the death penalty.
True to form, however, he insists that the killing was in self-defense. But frankly, arguing – as he did in the first case – that he mistook this Maasai ranger on patrol for a poacher (seeking to steal one of his prized “gazelles”, not necessarily to harm him) is not only patently fatuous; it ultimately betrays the most inhumane presumption of vintage colonial racism….
Therefore, stay tuned. Because, as I warned in last year’s article, if Cholmondeley gets off this time it would probably incite Rodney-King style riots all over the appropriately named Rift Valley region of Kenya.
NEW ORLEANS COP GETS RODNEY KING-STYLE JUSTICE
Meanwhile, apropos “no justice, no peace”, one of my more zealous readers e-mailed yesterday to vent her seething outrage after a New Orleans judge ruled that one of the two (white) police officers who were caught on tape beating the crap out of an old (black) man – for no apparent reason – was justified in doing so.
(Ironically, consciousness of guilt forced the other police officer involved to commit suicide on the eve of trial.)
Then – citing the article I wrote on this incident in October 2005 entitled White New Orleans cops give 64-year old black man a Rodney-King style beating – she asked in utter stupefaction:
How could this judge possible make such a ruling?
And – as I too was still seething with incredulity and outrage over this breaking news – here’s how I replied:
But we all saw cops on tape beating the crap out of Rodney King in Los Angeles as well. Perhaps what we need now is a riot in New Orleans to get justice. Unfortunately, all potential black rioters were displaced by Hurricane Katrina….
Did you happen to see this undeniably-incriminating video?
NOTE: I’m saving my socio-psycho commentary on Lindsay Lohan’s pathetic one-upmanship on Paris Hilton for tomorrow….
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